Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1996
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996dps....28.2009m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #28, #20.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 28, p.1131
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Titan's organic haze is potentially an important sink of photochemically produced carbon and nitrogen compounds. An assortment of microphysical haze models all suggest that the haze production rate is 10(-14) gm cm(-2) s(-1) , within a factor of two. Spectral analysis of laboratory tholins compared to Titan's geometric albedo spectrum suggest that the laboratory material is a good analog to Titan's haze. The laboratory material has an elemental composition given approximately by C_4H_4N, with an uncertainty in the C/N ratio of a factor of two. Thus, the haze represents a sink for C of 4x 10(8) cm(-2) s(-1) , and a sink for N of 1x 10(8) cm(-2) s(-1) . The C sink is small compared to condensation of hydrocarbons but the sink for N is comparable to the total production rate of HCN. Because estimates of the eddy diffusion profile on Titan have been based on the HCN profile, inclusion of this additional sink for N will affect estimates for all transport processes in Titan's atmosphere.
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